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Stanley Kubrick was a genius film maker.
1 posted on 01/29/2024 11:02:04 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: Responsibility2nd

The killed Kubrick because of the 24 minutes he refused to cut from Eyes Wide Shut.


2 posted on 01/29/2024 11:03:07 AM PST by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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I find 99% of his films unwatchable. This is one of them.


3 posted on 01/29/2024 11:05:25 AM PST by CaptainK ("If life's really hard, at least its short")
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Slim Pickens was genius in the movie.

Major T. J. "King" Kong : Survival kit contents check. In them you'll find: one forty-five caliber automatic; two boxes of ammunition; four days' concentrated emergency rations; one drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills; one miniature combination Russian phrase book and Bible; one hundred dollars in rubles; one hundred dollars in gold; nine packs of chewing gum; one issue of prophylactics; three lipsticks; three pair of nylon stockings. Shoot, a fella' could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.

4 posted on 01/29/2024 11:07:06 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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“I think you’re some kind of deviated prevert. General Ripper found out about you’re prevrsions, and thought you were organizing a mutiny of preverts”.


5 posted on 01/29/2024 11:07:28 AM PST by Col Frank Slade
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Could Gen. ‘Buck’ Turgidson survive in today’s air force?? (we need more “Buck’s, by the way)


6 posted on 01/29/2024 11:07:50 AM PST by llevrok (“In a time of deceit telling, the truth is a revolutionary act.” ― George Orwell)
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Without clicking on the “Guadalajaran”, the extras on “Fail Safe” are a hoot.

The creators of the movie, “Fail Safe”, were apoplectic that their “serious” movie would be destroyed by the comedy of Strangelove. Of course, they also get aroused by the back of Henry Fonda’s head…

I enjoy both movies.


8 posted on 01/29/2024 11:13:47 AM PST by Empire_of_Liberty
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In fact, I watched “Dr. Strangelove” two nights ago. It was one of the first DVDS I bought many years ago. It’s still one of the greatest satires ever made and has lost none of it’s teeth.


9 posted on 01/29/2024 11:14:19 AM PST by D_Idaho ("For we wrestle not against flesh and blood...")
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To: Responsibility2nd

Wag the dog was pretty cool, too.


11 posted on 01/29/2024 11:14:52 AM PST by ArtDodger
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At various times this is my first or second favorite movie. What an enduring masterpiece.


13 posted on 01/29/2024 11:17:19 AM PST by KC Burke
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I still think back to General Jack D. Ripper’s beliefs concerning fluoride, which has been proven to be true! And Col. Bat Guano? What a laugh.


14 posted on 01/29/2024 11:17:44 AM PST by RobertoinAL
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It was still so over the top, but I still accepted it as a masterpiece.


17 posted on 01/29/2024 11:21:12 AM PST by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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It is an anti-war movie. Disrespectful to the military. Full of stereotypes.

I absolutely love the movie. Just brilliant.

And I know a lot of military/ex-military folks who feel as I do!


18 posted on 01/29/2024 11:24:58 AM PST by rlmorel ("The stigma for being wrong is gone, as long as you're wrong for the right side." (Clarice Feldman))
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It’s boring and drags, and isn’t funny. Characters aren’t likeable or relatable. I was rooting for the bomb. Overrated Kubrick.


20 posted on 01/29/2024 11:26:18 AM PST by Ge0ffrey
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“You can’t fight in here, it’s the War room.”

5.56mm


24 posted on 01/29/2024 11:34:05 AM PST by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho have got to go. )
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satire? Hell it has come true!


25 posted on 01/29/2024 11:34:24 AM PST by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting…)
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My second favorite Cold War related movie from that era.

“One, Two, Three” is my favorite:

C.R. MacNamara: Cigarette? Cigar?
Peripetchikoff: Here, take one of these.
C.R. Macnamara: Thanks. Hm, ‘Made in Havana’.
Peripetchikoff: We have trade agreement with Cuba. They send us cigars, we send them rockets.
C.R. Macnamara: Good thinking.

C.R. MacNamara: You know something? You guys got cheated. This is a pretty crummy cigar.
Peripetchikoff: Do not worry. We send them pretty crummy rockets.


28 posted on 01/29/2024 11:38:24 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Yes he was a genius and probably the top film maker of all time.


30 posted on 01/29/2024 11:39:19 AM PST by jimwatx
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As the movie concluded, this is what you heard as the bombs went off. For that reason, I have always associated this tune with nuclear war.

Well Meet Again--Vera Lynn (1953)

31 posted on 01/29/2024 11:40:15 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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I have never seen this movie but did watch Casino Royale. Peter Sellers actually thought he could become a James Bond type and was hacked off when he saw it was a spoof.

This guy must have had one heck of an ego.

Oh, and that movie was a train wreck


37 posted on 01/29/2024 11:46:38 AM PST by RummyChick
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Life imitates art.............................


41 posted on 01/29/2024 11:57:27 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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